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This volume brings together two of Paul West's best books: his critically acclaimed "Words for a Deaf Daughter" (1970), a nonfiction account of West's deaf and brain-damaged daughter Mandy at age eight, and "Gala" (1976), a novel about a writer named Wight Deulius who brings his handicapped teenage daughter Michaela from England to America for a visit. While Words is an account of Mandy's diagnosis and treatment, Gala is "the scenario of a wish-fulfillment" (as West writes in the preface), a continuation of the father and daughter's joyful investigation of the richness of life and its amazing possibilities. Ranging across natural history and astronomy in his effort to understand his daughter's handicap, West finds in Mandy/Michaela an irrepressible and unpredictable guide to the mysteries of the universe. Brought together in the same volume, the books also allow a unique look at how nonfiction and fiction techniques can be used to the same ends in the hands of a master of prose.

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  • Title Words for a Deaf Daughter and Gala: A Fictional Sequel
  • Author Paul West
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
  • Publication date 1993-11-01
  • ISBN 9781564780362 / 1564780368
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.49 x 5.55 x 0.96 in (21.56 x 14.10 x 2.44 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Fathers and daughters, Authors, American - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93018997
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Library Journal, 10/15/1993, Page 0

About the author

Paul West (February 23, 1930) is an English-born novelist, literary historian and poet, the author of 24 novels, who has lived in America since the early 1960s. He now (in 2012) resides in upstate New York with his wife, the writer, poet and well-known naturalist Diane Ackerman.?

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